highway robbery in English

noun

extremely high price, fee that is irrationally high (Informal); robbery of a traveler carried out on a public highway or road

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1. Brigandage Meaning: "highway robbery by organized gangs," c

2. Brigandage is the life and practice of highway robbery and plunder

3. Brigandage is the life and practice of highway robbery and plunder

4. Brigandage refers to the illegal act of highway robbery and plunder

5. Brigandage refers to the life and practice of brigands: highway robbery and plunder

6. Brigandage refers to the life and practice of Brigands: highway robbery and plunder

7. On the whole, Assizes dealt with the more serious offences such as murder, rape, infanticide, felonies, highway robbery, coining, forgery, vagrancy and witchcraft.

8. Brigandage: The life and practices of a brigand; highway robbery by organized gangs; figuratively, organized spoliation: as, Brigandage in the legislature or on the bench.

9. Brigandage refers to the life and practice of brigands: highway robbery and plunder, and a brigand is a person who usually lives in a gang and lives by pillage and robbery

10. The amendment removes from the Constitution the reference to the imposition of the death penalty for the crimes of treason during war with a foreign country, parricide, homicide with malice aforethought or premeditation or for gain, arson, kidnapping, highway robbery and piracy and for serious military offences.